New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-23
selves hoarse about fostering corrupeion fsf-
don the levity, but give Us . rest


selves hoarse about fostering corruption Par
don the levity, but give Us rest
| Croton water docs o good deal to old the cause
Of the saloon keepers. p"
| The Presidents delay in apponttng commits
sioners to carry out the Interstate Commerce
bill is undoubtedly caused by th{ difficulty ne has
| met with to find any one who knows precisely
what it means. ~.
An old citizen of Buffalo Is quoted as remsrls-
ing: "No, was never very lucky In the iottery
business" The only men who ever are lucky ln
that business are those who sell, not those who
buy, the tickets. ID has been calculated that o
man wins a prize in lottery about as often as ne
is struck by lightning.
Ii is Mr. Goschen's opinion that the Irish mem
bcrs are given extraordinary liberty OF speech In
Parliament, far more than they would be coll
coded in the American Congress. 1t is hardly
worth while to discuss point about which Mr..
Goschen evidently knows so little. OF one thing.
however, VIC can assure him. Ihis country would
tolerate no such absurd powers Of clOture as are
assumed even now by Speaker Peel Instead OF
extending his authority, 1t would be dec1siveiy
curtailed. The presiding officers Of our Legislative
bodies are their servants, not their masters
The case of Egypt is another proof that Eng
land protects countries by swallowing them.
Very little time will elapss before Mayor Hewitt
makes his appointments 70 who have axes TO
grind prepare to grind them now.
The New South has a stomschfAtlanta Constitution.
That was one great trouble with the old South.
1t could stomach almost anything What Is
wanted is q South which has no stomach for
fraud and crimes against suffrage.
It may we'll be that Bismarck would have
been better of had he suffered defeat. In that
event. had war como the Opposition would have
been visited with the odium Of having left the
Empire without adequate defence. Now II war
comes, he will be charged with having challenged
France 30 combat. II 10 does not come. 1t will
be said that he has burdened the people oil for
nothing. despot has hard time Of it these
days.
1t Is folly to require the impossible in tenn
perance legislation. Ii is q crime 10 REJECT tne
practicable wise and efficient.
A gloom has fallen on Syracuse She would
seem TO have discovered that considerable total
dcpravity can se1uester itself even beneath the
picturesque blankets OF the imported article OF
toboggan1st-lmporLed from Canada. 1he peIsoh
responsible for the painful awakening, according
to Tho Courier OF that city, was lately the
cynosure Of all eyes" He 10 longer
answers to that complimentary descr1p-
tion. "He slid out Of town. 1.-The
Courier states, las gracefully down toboS-
gan chute The exercise would not have been
reprehensble but for the fact that he failed TO
leave behind him large enough unexpended sur
plus TO liquidnte his liabilities. Several gentle
men want to see him badly and to them the merry
sport Of tobogganing is not so much Of Joy for
ever
A notable and encouraging feature OF the re-
cent Assembly inquiry into the causes OF the
strikes il the freedom and cand0r with which great
corporations laid bare the details OF their business
Would not one lawyer apiece have been enough
for the Brooklyn investigating Committee?
THE Boston Globe says that rcstlessness Is
infectious Couldn't some restless person be per-
suaded to remain in the vicinity OF A. II. Garland
long enough to test our contemporaries theory